Table of Contents

Michael D. Coogan: In the Beginning: The Earliest History
Wayne T. Pitard: Before Israel: Syria-Palestine in the Bronze Age
Carol A. Redmount: Bitter Lives: Israel in an dout of Egypt
Lawrence E. Stager: Forging and Identity: The Emergence of Ancient Israel
Jo Ann Hackett: "There Was No King in Israel" The Era of the Judges
Carol Meyers: Kinship and Kingship: The Early Monarchy
Edward F. Campbell, Jr.: A Land Divided: Judah and Israel from the Death of Solomon to the Fall of Samaria
Mordechai Cogan: Into Exile: From the Assyrian Conquest of Israel to the Fall of Babylon
Mary Joan Winn Leith: Israel Among the Nations: The Persian Period
Leonard J. Greenspoon: Between Alexandria and Antioch: Jews and Judaism in the Hellenistic Period
Amy-Jill Levine: Visions of Kingdoms: From Pompey to the First Jewish Revolt
Daniel N. Schowalter: Churches in Context: The Jesus Movement in the Roman World
Barbara Geller: Transitions and Trajectories: Jews and Christians in the Roman Empire
Chronological Table of Events
General Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
Index

About the Author

Michael D. Coogan, editor of the New Oxford Annotated Bible, 3rd ed. and co-editor of the Oxford Companion to the Bible, is currently director of publications for the Harvard Semitic Museum and Professor of Religious Studies at Stonehill College in Easton, Massachusetts.

Reviews

this work is one of solid scholarship. It is informative and very suitable for student use and for the general reader. James Barr, Times Literary Supplement This is a significant contribution to the field, and will be very helpful to students of biblical studies, and for others who seek an up-to-date and comprehensive "history of the biblical world". Joseph Sobb, Journal of Religious History

this work is one of solid scholarship. It is informative and very suitable for student use and for the general reader. James Barr, Times Literary Supplement This is a significant contribution to the field, and will be very helpful to students of biblical studies, and for others who seek an up-to-date and comprehensive "history of the biblical world". Joseph Sobb, Journal of Religious History